Articles: palliative-care.
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Background: Clinical hypnosis appears to hold some promising effects for patients at end-of-life. Patients and health care professionals (HPs) are inclined to adopt the practice. Yet, the experience of hypnosis in this context remains under-researched. ⋯ Conclusions: The practice of hypnosis is very diverse and constrained by resources and limitations in institutional support. Patients and relatives identified that hypnosis had a positive impact to enable them to recognize and mobilize their personal resources toward greater self-empowerment. Our findings suggest that hypnosis might hold a real potential for patients and their relatives, thus warranting further study of its effects in palliative care.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2024
Use of Essential Medicines for Pain Relief and Palliative Care: a global consensus process.
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines includes 24 medications under the section Medicines for Pain and Palliative Care (EML). The Lancet Commission on Pain and Palliative Care developed the Lancet Essential Package (LEP), including 35 medications designed to alleviate serious health-related suffering worldwide. ⋯ We were able to partly achieve our goal, with limited evidence and a wide range of clinical practice described by the experts. This highlights an important gap in critical information which affects mostly the provision of palliative care at the primary care. Both limited availability and lack of training on the adequate use of essential medications may affect how clinicians manage symptoms, possibly relying on personal experience or trial and error, rather than evidence-based information.
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2024
ReviewComponents of home-based palliative and supportive care for adults with heart failure: A scoping review.
Palliative care and supportive care provided in the home for people with heart failure can improve quality of life, caregiver wellbeing and reduce healthcare costs. Identifying components of home-based palliative and supportive care in heart failure is useful to inform tailored care to people with heart failure. ⋯ Ensuring patient and caregiver-centred care supported by a multidisciplinary team is essential to delivering home-based palliative and supportive care for people with heart failure. Further research focussed on the role of digital interventions in home-based palliative and supportive care, the composition of the multidisciplinary team and research which includes individuals across all stages of heart failure is needed.
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This case discussion describes the use of an expanded interdisciplinary palliative care team structure that integrated art therapy and narrative therapy to meet the needs of a woman with a history of chronic pain and Burkitt lymphoma, who had received quadruple amputation due to complications of treatment. The concurrent interventions of art therapy, narrative therapy, and traditional palliative care consultation services resulted in high-quality, trauma-informed care, contributing to effective psychosocial coping and enhanced total pain management. The addition of expressive therapeutic modalities to inpatient palliative care consultation requires close collaboration and may be particularly valuable when addressing complex needs in the setting of prolonged hospitalizations.
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Background: Malignant ascites (MA) represents 10% of all causes of ascites and is associated with a poor prognosis. The PleurX tunneled peritoneal catheter is a device that allows the management of MA at home in a palliative care context (renamed AscitX catheter for this work). The objective of this study was to analyze real-world data of AscitX use for cancer patients with MA, to describe complications associated with the insertion of this device, and to identify factors influencing patient outcomes. ⋯ Regarding post-catheter end-of-life management, 41% of the patients died at home. Conclusions: AscitX catheter safety appears to be acceptable and most of the palliative care patients included in our study died at home. We identified CT-diagnosed portal hypertension as associated with better prognosis, as well as the absence of diuretic treatment.